The Mississippi State football and basketball programs have been placed on probation.
In a release by the NCAA, it has been found that a former Mississippi State student and part-time athletics department tutor “committed academic misconduct in an online general chemistry course to aid 10 football student-athletes and a men’s basketball student-athlete.”
According to the report, the former tutor completed “multiple assignments, exams and, in some instances, nearly the entire course for student-athletes.”
As a result, said athletes competed while ineligible.
The NCAA agreed upon Level I-mitigated penalties for the university, with the former tutor also receiving a penalty.